1. Brooke Fraser uses both her maiden and married names professionally.
24 Facts About Brooke Fraser
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Brooke Fraser later released Brutal Romantic, various compilation albums, the live album Seven and Eight.
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Brooke Fraser became a member of the Australian Christian music group Hillsong Worship, where she wrote and performed several songs for the collective.
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Brooke Fraser co-wrote and performed the latter live track, and won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance in 2018.
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Brooke Fraser's father is of Fijian, Portuguese, and Scottish descent.
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Brooke Fraser has two brothers: Matthew, who lives in Wellington, and Shea, who lives in Dunedin.
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Brooke Fraser grew up in Naenae, Lower Hutt and attended Dyer Street School, Naenae Intermediate School and Naenae College.
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Brooke Fraser took piano lessons between the ages of seven and seventeen.
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Brooke Fraser started writing songs at age twelve and taught herself the acoustic guitar at age fifteen.
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Brooke Fraser began writing for the Soul Purpose magazine at age fifteen and was later made editor in 2002.
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Brooke Fraser gave up her job as editor shortly after moving to Auckland in late 2002 in order to pursue her music career.
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In 2002, at the age of 18, Brooke Fraser signed a multi album deal with Sony Music, after a fierce bidding war between labels.
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Brooke Fraser's album topped the New Zealand Top 50 Albums for all of 2004.
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In 2005, prior to writing and preparing her follow-up album, Brooke Fraser went to Rwanda before visiting her World Vision sponsor children in Tanzania.
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Brooke Fraser wrote the song "Albertine" about a young genocide victim, whom she met while in Rwanda.
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In 2008, Brooke Fraser undertook a major world tour, culminating the Montreal Jazz Festival and the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, UK.
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On 13 August 2014, Brooke Fraser released a "taster track" titled "Psychosocial" on SoundCloud.
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Brooke Fraser co-wrote and sang lead vocals on the song "What a Beautiful Name" for the 2016 live album.
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Brooke Fraser revealed during the album's press cycle that she had stepped away again from Hillsong following several controversies and major changes within the church.
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In March 2015, Brooke Fraser announced she was pregnant with their first child.
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Brooke Fraser has cited New Zealand artist Lorde as an influence.
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Brooke Fraser has worked with World Vision as an Artist Associate since 2001.
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Brooke Fraser has visited Cambodia and Tanzania with World Vision, the Philippines with Opportunity International and independently travelled to Rwanda in June 2005, in June 2006 as part of charity event "Hope Rwanda", and in May 2007 when she filmed the music video for the song "Albertine" off her second studio album of the same name.
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Brooke Fraser was one of many New Zealand performers to work alongside New Zealand comedy band Flight of the Conchords in their 2012 New Zealand Red Nose Day charity song "Feel Inside ".